You Suck is a Laugh-out-loud funny book (at times) making fun of everything that is Goth, Emo, "Twilight" and "Vampyre" at the same bloody time. It is filled with moral ambiguity, awfulness, whores, the word "fuck" in many incarnations, and undead murderous bastards.
Make no mistake, the book is not expertly crafted. It gets better the further you are through it, but there are times in the beginning where it is just a little halting because transitions blow. At other times, he is just trying a little too hard to be funny on a tight timeline as the book seems to have been bashed out in a few days. But you can read it in about 7 or 8 hours, so you wont suffer much if you don't like it.
There is no point behind this book other than to laugh. But it does have sections which, don't promote animal cruelty, but certainly don't admonish it. The same goes with its depiction of prostitution. If these offend you, steer clear of the book.
I'm not going to personally recommend it for all of these reasons, but that being said, it's "Awful, But Not Bad", though I didn't think I would say that at chapter 10.
Amendment:
The end does have interesting things happen between the main couple. Their personalities are different and they react to vampirism differently. I don't want to ruin anything (ever), but I have come back to thinking of the problem posed to them in the end and have gained a little more respect for the book.
My rating stands: It isn't a bad book, perhaps it's even good, but it is filled with awfulness. I still like the phrase. I have been recommending it to some people, though, so take that a little be better than it was originally intended without this amendment.
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